US3971622A - Microscope assembly having base mount for receiving dimmer circuit components - Google Patents

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US3971622A
US3971622A US05/517,486 US51748674A US3971622A US 3971622 A US3971622 A US 3971622A US 51748674 A US51748674 A US 51748674A US 3971622 A US3971622 A US 3971622A
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  • the invention generally relates to a microscope with a dimmer which is associated with a light source used for the purpose of illumination in the microscope.
  • Microscopes having a dimmer for adjusting the intensity of illuminating light are already known, and the recent trend is to introduce a dimmer incorporating a thyrister, such as an SCR, a silicon controlled rectifier element, etc., so that the brightness of the light source may be adjusted in a continuous manner.
  • a dimmer incorporating a thyrister such as an SCR, a silicon controlled rectifier element, etc.
  • the mount need be handled when assembling or servicing the dimmer.
  • the mount may be removed from the body of the associated microscope and placed on a work table, and the whole assembling or servicing operation of the electrical components can be made on the work table, which greatly facilitates such operation. Since the mount is substantially complete with the required electrical components when it is to be attached to the base of the associated microscope, the attachment becomes a simple operation and the likelihood of damaging the body or base of the microscope is minimized. It is also contemplated that a microscope may require several different voltage ratings for the dimmer depending on local requirements. The use of the mount according to the invention allows an easy replacement of dimmers each including electrical components of different ratings.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a microscope to which the invention is applied.
  • FIG. 2 is a similar view of the microscope, with the mount being removed from the body of the microscope to illustrate the assembling operation.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a microscope to which the invention is applied.
  • the body of the microscope is generally shown at 1, and essentially includes a base 2 and a lens barrel 3 connected together by a limb portion 4, to which a slidable stage 5 is attached.
  • a dimmer 6 Located within the base 2 is a dimmer 6 (see FIG. 2) which is electrically connected with an internally mounted light source assembly, not shown, through a cable connector 12 and which emits and directs through an internally housed optical system a light beam of an adjusted intensity through a projector lens 7 toward a condenser lens 8 mounted underneath the stage 5.
  • a specimen to be examined (not shown) is placed on the stage 5, and can be observed, upon illumination through the condenser lens 8, through an objective lens 9a on a turret 9 which is mounted on the lens barrel 3 and through an eyepiece 10.
  • the stage 5 can be moved vertically for the purpose of focussing by turning an operating knob 11 on a limb portion 4. Magnification can be varied by rotating the turret 9, replacing the objective lens 9a by another objective lens 9b.
  • a tray-shaped mount 20 for mounting electrical components is fixedly attached to the lower portion of the base 2 by means of screws 22a, 22b (FIG. 2), and carries the components such as transformer 14, choke coil 16, thyrister, such as SCR 18, etc., and the like, of a known dimmmer circuit 6.
  • a voltage adjusting knob 13 for manually adjusting the voltage supplied to the light source is mounted on the base 2 and connected to other components of circuit 6 by conventional means, such as the elongated connecting leads 13a and 13b.
  • the body 1 When the microscope is assembled, the body 1 is assembled separately while the electrical components of a selected known dimmer circuit, including parts 14 to 18, are mounted on the mount 20. After assembly of the body 1, the mount 20 carrying the assembled electrical components is fixedly attached to the base 2 by suitable means such as screws 22a, 22b, for example.

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USD263057S (en) 1978-12-08 1982-02-16 Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Gmbh Microscope
US4361377A (en) * 1981-01-12 1982-11-30 Pullen Joel F Portable compact microscope
US4733954A (en) * 1985-06-07 1988-03-29 Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Gmbh Microscope support
US4770518A (en) * 1987-04-08 1988-09-13 Cambridge Instruments Inc. Apparatus for indicating intensity of an illuminator in an optical instrument
USD436972S1 (en) 2000-02-24 2001-01-30 L. W. Scientific, Inc. Microscope
US6714348B2 (en) * 2001-11-14 2004-03-30 Ken-A-Vision Manufacturing Co., Inc. Cordless microscope
US20040105149A1 (en) * 2001-11-14 2004-06-03 Dunn Thomas M. Cordless microscope
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US20060050372A1 (en) * 2002-10-02 2006-03-09 Manfred Gilbert Microscope
US7009762B2 (en) * 2003-09-09 2006-03-07 Gemological Institute Of America, Inc. Gem microscope having a swivel base and a stationary power cord
US20050094259A1 (en) * 2003-09-09 2005-05-05 Howard Pomerantz Gem microscope having a swivel base and a stationary power cord
US20060198019A1 (en) * 2004-09-07 2006-09-07 Gemological Institute Of America, Inc. Gem microscope having a swivel base and a stationary power cord
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US7576911B1 (en) * 2006-07-11 2009-08-18 Roy Larimer Variable aperture transmissive substage microscope illuminator
WO2009086319A3 (en) * 2007-12-21 2009-10-01 Protochips, Inc. Specimen mount for microscopy
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